Little England is a historic

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located near

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. The

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dates to a 1651 land grant to the Perrin family by Governor William Berkeley. Capt. John Perrin built the house on a point of land overlooking the York River directly across from Yorktown in 1716 with plans reputed to have been drawn by

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. The house was used as a lookout for ships during the

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. It is a -story, five-bay, gable roofed brick dwelling in the Georgian style. A -story frame wing was added in 1954. It has a single-pile plan and two interior end chimneys. The brickwork is

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with few glazed headers. Little England is one of Virginia's least altered and best-preserved colonial plantation homes. The interior features some of the finest colonial paneling in Virginia. The house was restored in 1939. an
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in 1970.

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Little England, State Route 672 vicinity, Bena, Gloucester County, VA
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